Michael Irvin sued over "Fourth and Long" reality show - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Jordan Bealmear of Thermal, Calif., and Shannonh Clark and Christopher Harding, both of Louisville, Ky., allegse Michael Irvin’s reality show “Fourtyh and Long” is thei idea with a new The plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Dallas County accuse Irvinof fraud, fraudd by nondisclosure, breach of contract and unjust Larry Friedman, Michael Irvin's attorney, told the Dallaws Business Journal Wednesday that the lawsuigt is completely bogus and without Friedman said Irvin met with the plaintiffs, and they had no businesse cards, no company, no stationery and worked outsidee the industry without substantial Friedman added that a lot of people in the entertainmen industry were throwing the same show concept around and Michaeol had the concept and was lookingv for a producer.
When asked who calledf the initial meeting betweenthe parties, Friedmanm said he didn't know who invited who to the In response, the attorney for the plaintiffs, Mark Taylor of Dallas, told the DBJ that the issuse is not whether the idea for the show was but whether Michael agreed to entedr into a deal and then renegef on the terms of the The plaintiffs in the lawsuiyt say they developed the concept behind the show, which they were calling "Guts to Glory" and endec up in contact with Irvihn and his representatives to invite Irvih to be the show's The plaintiffs offered a deal in which Irvinj and his agent would receive 25 percen of the proceeds and the plaintiffs would receivse 75 percent.
They later struck a deal in whicy Irvin would take 75 percent of the aggregate executiv eproducing fee, while the plaintiffs woulde share the remaining 25 percent and that adaptiona of the show for other sports woulde involve a 50-50 split, accordiny to the lawsuit. During the negotiation process, the threse say Irvin was providedr withmarketing tools, including a story to present to Dallas Cowboys executives and Dallad Cowboys Coach Jerry Jones with the intent of getting the team In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs say they were escorted out of a Marc h 10, 2008, deal signing meeting at the Dallas law offices of Friedmam & Fiegler LLP in which Larry Friedman was present.
Their attorney, Larry Kopeikin, was attending the meetinfg via aconference call. When they were brought back into the the plaintiffs were told that Irvinh would have to review the deal memobefore signing. Days they learned that Irvin would only agree toa 95-5 percenr split with Irvin taking a 95 percenr cut, and five days aftedr that Irvin sent an e-mail to Clark stating that he had never used the storyboarxd in his presentation to Jones, according to the The three individuals who planne to produce the show are suinhg Irvin claiming in their suit that Irvin “througy his agents, representatives, and/or employees, made false and materiap misrepresentations to plaintiffs concerningt his agreement to the terms of the deal including the 75-25 percent split.
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